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INTERCESSIONARY PRAYER DIARY: FEBRUARY 2009 1 Shirwell Deanery. Les Austin, Rural Dean. Eileen MacCaig, Lay Chairman. 2 Little Dart Team Ministry (Chulmleigh, Chawleigh, Cheldon, Wembworthy, Eggesford, Burrington, Witheridge with Creacombe, Thelbridge, Meshaw, East Worlington, West Worlington). Roderick Withnell, John Hanna. David Cain, Christine Chandler, Yvonne Childs, Ianthe Wraighte (Readers) 3 Oakmoor Team Ministry (Bishopsnympton, Rose Ash, Mariansleigh, Molland, Knowstone, East Anstey, West Anstey, Alswear Chapel). Andrew Jones. 4 South Molton Deanery. Andrew Jones, Rural Dean. Ron Thorne, Lay Chairman. 5 South Molton Team Ministry (South Molton, Nymet St George, High Bray, Charles, Filleigh, East Buckland, Warkleigh with Satterleigh, Chittlehamholt, Kingsnympton, Romansleigh, North Molton, Twitchen, Chittlehampton, Umberleigh). Christopher Robinson, David Rudman, Colin Davis, Peter Attwood, Christopher Pouncey. John Cundill, Howard Friend, Wendy Isaac, Chris Grasske, Susan Robinson, Chris Whinney (Readers) 6 Thika Diocese. Mbugiti Parish. Salome Kimani 7 Ashreigney, Broadwoodkelly, Brushford, Winkleigh. Peter Norman. Adrian Magor (Reader) 8 Torrington Deanery. Kim Mathers, Rural Dean. Mary Marsham, Lay Chairman 9 Dolton, Iddesleigh, Dowland, Monkokehampton. Carolyn Brodribb, David Ursell. 10 Two Rivers Team Ministry (Newton Tracey, Alverdiscott, Huntshaw, Yarnscombe, Horwood, Tawstock, Atherington, High Bickington, Beaford, Roborough, St Giles in the Wood). Kim Mathers, John Carvosso, Michael Clark 11 Torridge Team Ministry (Shebbear, Buckland Filleigh, Sheepwash, Langtree, Newton St Petrock, Petrockstowe, Petersmarland, Merton, Huish). Martin Warren. Sheila Deane, Sandra Juniper, Christine Wright (Readers) 12 PLYMOUTH ARCHDEACONRY. Tony Wilds, Archdeacon. Margaret Bartlam, Ursula Bennett, Paul Colman, Derek Gdanitz, Marian Grinter, Steven Linden, Roger Locock, John McIver, Roy Matthews, Colin Marshall, Raymond Putt, David Short, Ian Silcox, Janet Vickers, Geoffrey Willetts, Kenneth Worth (Archdeaconry Readers) 13 Cornwood, Sparkwell. Freddie Denman 14 Ermington, Ugborough. Nicola Hunt 15 Ivybridge Deanery. David Arnott, Rural Dean. Jennifer Townley, Lay Chairman 16 Holbeton, Newton Ferrers, Revelstoke. Jonathan Cruickshank, Jennifer Townley (Reader) 17 Ivybridge, Harford. Christopher Osborne. Helene Stainer, Marion Hinks. Barbara Greenberry, Judith Ayres (Readers) 18 Wembury. Michael Harman. Trevor Gaught, Shirley Newnham, Roger Newnham (Readers) 19 Yealmpton, Brixton. David Arnott. Rosemary Clark (Reader) 20 St Aidan, Ernesettle. Tim Thorp 21 Devonport Deanery. Stephen Beach, Rural Dean. Terry Brown, Lay Chairman 22 Devonport St Aubyn, Stoke Damerel. David Nixon. Wendy Pezzey, Caroline Lee 23 Eggbuckland. Tim Dickens, Carrie Bowman, Derry Bowman. Elizabeth Dickens (Readers) 24 Cyprus and the Gulf. Jebel Ali, Christ Church. Canon Stephen Wright and Joanna Wright 25 Devonport St Bartholomew, St Mark Ford. Richard Sigrist. Catherine Davies, George Davies, Paul Webber (Readers) 26 North Devonport Team Ministry (St Boniface, Weston Mill). Vacancy. Joanna Bound (Reader) 27 Devonport St Budeaux. Stephen Beach 28 Devonport St Michael and St Barnabas. Tim Buckley. Robert Hall, John Wright, Lynda Buckley (Readers) 6
Hold Fast this Lent In November, along with Bishops Bob and John I wrote to all churches across the Diocese to encourage them to plan for a time of prayer and fasting early in Lent. We want to encourage this as part of our 1100th anniversary celebrations which take place this year, as a time when we seek to be more faithful in sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ across this County of Devon, seeking to grow the members of Christ’s church and increase the number of those being called out for ministry in the Church. Calls for prayer we are familiar with – but what about the request to consider fasting? Isn’t that a bit extreme, or old-fashioned, or not very Church of England? In fact it is none of these things. The combination of fasting and praying is not a fad or a novelty approach to spiritual discipline. It is something that has been deeply embedded in all the major Christian traditions and it does, of course, have its roots in the example and teaching of Jesus himself. So what is fasting? A fast is different from a hunger strike: a fast is a personal act of devotion to God, while a hunger strike is a public act most often BISHOP’S LETTER Bishop Michael will be holding his fast on Saturday 28 February. You are invited to join him and others at Exeter Cathedral for reflection and prayer on the hour between 7am and 7pm. For more information see www.devon1100.org used to shine a spotlight on some particular cause or concern. A fast is also not about starving yourself; it is disciplined diet, not total abstention from food. During a religious fast, you still eat, you just abstain from certain foodstuffs. Traditionally, people have fasted by eliminating luxury items from their diets, such as meats. You could have a fast that consists of eating whatever you want, but drinking only water. Orthodox Christians recognize five levels of fasting, abstaining from some or all of the following: meat, eggs, milk, butter, fish, oil, and wine - or abstaining from all foods and beverages except bread, water, juices, honey, and nuts (after the manner of John the Baptist, and probably Jesus as well during his forty days in the wilderness). To fast is then to just omit an item or two from your diet — something that you would normally eat during the course of the day. Every time you get an appetite for those items, you will be reminded of your fast and that will remind you of the reason for your fast, and you can pray instead of eating. This can have immense spiritual benefit. You are simply using your belly as a spiritual snooze-alarm. John Wesley, the Anglican priest who founded Methodism, refused to ordain anyone who did not fast on Wednesday and Friday. He felt that anyone who could not rule his own belly could not be expected to rule the church of God! I find that quite a salutary challenge to me. The call to prayer and fasting during Lent is an encouragement to have our eyes lifted from those things that so often shape our thoughts and desires, and so to be sharpened in our hunger for the word of God and a deep thirst to do his will. +Michael Michael Langrish Bishop of Exeter bishop.of.exeter@exeter.anglican.org 7
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